margit long enough to. find out what's really happening to the global economy is a report on march. first the bodies of ninety nine victims including children in a pathway running from a russian bruiser that ran down in the country's worst voting disaster. washington's missile shield over europe chips away aberrations with moscow as the u.s. stands accused of taking advantage of anti saudi sentimental secure future bases in europe. and an anti torture uproar in the u.s. while advocating human rights for the rest of the world thousands of professional torturers are being trained at home. also in business to the presence of russia and switzerland meeting to discuss

a free trade agreement and inaugurate us with some plants near moscow more or less influence if. it is not an in the russian capital you're watching r t with joshie divers have pulled the bodies of almost one hundred people from their watery grave following the sinking of a pleasure boat on the volga river in what is russia's worst boating disaster many of them are children who were packed into a games room on the bulgarian vessel when i went down in just a matter of minutes on sunday a total of around one hundred thirty people are thought to have been killed and a tragedy specialists are preparing to lift the rock from the bottom of the river which is hoped will shed more light on the causes of the accident already partly blamed on their diligence meanwhile the first funerals have been held in the republic of tata. time as russia continues to mourn the victims tom martin reports

. this is the happy scene that should have been on this ship is designed almost identically to the bulgaria in this room almost identical to the one that children on that ship played in but for whatever reason their fate was very different. to it. now. as crowds gathered in remembrance of those killed by the sinking of the volga pleasure boat it was the younger victims seem to cast the longest shadow. these schoolgirls but lost one of their classmates. the most we study together for a year she never had arguments with a new i'm sure the very kind of girl and was always ready to help. as divers

reached the play room one of the bold daria's of the tex they found the bodies of the children that had gathered there just before the boat sunk. once inside the boat the bodies were everywhere and the corridors and the cabins for the most of them were in the lifeless. divers now have the awful task of bringing the bodies to the surface those left behind can only wonder at how fast their families were torn apart. our colleague was on that ship she went on a cruise together with her family got a president five year old son and i would say she was pregnant and was deliver her second baby in august which is not found yet only her husband managed to survive she and her son died. and for those children left suddenly without parents the terrible truth they may not be able to comprehend for years she lost her mother

and father we're all but will have to look after and she's only one and a half years old but you know what will you tell her we can't she wouldn't understand. but there is much that people don't understand about this disaster feelings here amongst all of the people gathered here are very much ones of respect but off big and growing questions as to why this happened reports about the ship's engines failing about blocked emergency exits and the electricity failure that stopped any s.o.s. or evacuations struction going out criminal cases have been opened into like two ships passing straight out of the sinking didn't stop to pick up a single person and into why the aging vessel was allowed to sail in the first place but for those who have lost loved ones the case will never be closed tom watson. what you want to live from moscow have for you this hour deciding his

fate continue covering the long high court session which will rule whether the extradition to sweden we can because founder julian assange will go ahead. the fury all worth the phone hacking scandal gripping britain goes international as the u.s. senate takes. its media empire. washington's plan missile shield over europe has been labeled as a maid and behind a widening chasm in russian american relations by foreign minister sergey lavrov the u.s. has brushed off moscow's concerns over the project maintaining that shields only to protect against attacks from rogue states but some say it's taking advantage of bitterness to see through his gun it should count reports. u.s. missile defense plans in europe are of course up for discussion here in washington foreign minister lavrov said russia for legally binding guarantees that the european missile defense project will not threaten russia's security there have

been words before washington has many times said that the system would not be against russia but moscow needs to have it on paper some analyst explained that this urge that russia has been getting everything on paper with promises in the past that were not fulfilled for example when the soviet union collapsed russia was assured that nato would not be expanding towards these borders but he did it can do its continued recruiting new members of the bottom line is words are good but words even legally binding agreement are better foreign minister lavrov said that's probably the most irritating issue in the relations between the two countries and there is a huge desire to live it behind and to rather turn it into an area of cooperation for some drone that being created on the basis of. national design of missile defense which was not accepted by is a reasonable way to restore its received is doing that purpose ok in the system so you want to stick to the original. parts of the system which we

agreed to respect for the strategics the beautiful but then short the strategic stability here and there was through the jugular symbols of the participants of the system russia has offered building the missile shield in europe together but that offer was turned down nato says russia can protest that page but it can't be a drawing project because russia is not part of nato to that moscow says if that's the case let's base our relations on agreements not just words the shield itself according to the state department will have the whole of europe covered my colleague alex a year off if he wants to romania where the u.s. plans to build the radar and found out what it means for the local population take a listen. to voice my. the romanian village of the cell still cannot believe his luck after washington picked this place in romania's region to locate a new raider base locals have been all smiles about hypothetical investment of the

first word to the us who killed a retired we were a little bit scared police who we were informed that having this piece was. impossible job as it. was to search it for a long time. it will have a second chance. proposed to consist of radio facilities and interceptor rockets it is scheduled to be built by twenty fifteen and will become instrumental president obama's european anti-missile defense shield in the one nine hundred fifty s. an airbase in the town of davis in romania was used by the soviet forces now with washington's plans to place a radar station here locals have a job that should booker us change his foreign policy again the place will be occupied by the chinese similar plans were no joke for some in other european countries thousands in the czech republic and poland protested against the initiative to have military bases on their soil with mixed results while the first

line of interceptor missiles was eventually placed the czechs suddenly pulled out of it and on the south of france in romania there have been no demonstrations like that at all there is a historical fact that makes a romania one of the most pro-american countries in the world it has been explained by our ancestors the better things and the companies came from the east everybody was expecting the american to rebalance the whole thing so there is this sentiment and this feeling that. the presence of the u.s. is counter balance and specifically the u.s. is contra balance. the presence or influence of russia in the. if that is the real case then what security would this new shield provide and most importantly defense from whom not even two years since barack obama restructured the bush era european shield scheme moskos delight over the us

president's move was replaced by feelings of discontent and concern not only bush it is a real worry that washington does something before these actions it is unclear what exactly they're creating as soon as we understand that this is someone be used against russia but legally binding guarantees stood up in this tension will be result of that despite being described as fruitful the recent summit between president with nato ambassadors in sochi broke no consensus on missile defense so experts say the issue will remain a thorn in the side for both moscow and washington at least until next year when the next may to russia council meeting will be held in chicago by the time construction of the raider facility endeavor seller would most likely be in full swing. let's see reporting from various and bucharest in romania.

we can leaks founder julian assange continues his fight against extradition at the high court in london sweden wants to question the world's most famous whistleblower over sexual assault allegations but his supporters fear extradition to the scandinavian country will open a way for the u.s. to get its hands on him or his lore and it has the latest from outside the court building. today is the second day of what's expected to be a cheery day hearing the cold feet appeal of juvenile song shaver whether he's to be extradited to sweden we're expecting when say to be given a bit to have been in the hall felt the swedish prosecutor's office since yesterday was given a bit to his own defense i phone has left the court last night completely tight lipped he didn't wave to any of his supporters who was standing outside the court he just walked away which must be a direct instruction from his new legal team that he has why it's especially to deal with a steering the new legal team seem to take it on a new strategy that much more conciliatory about this case

a much more concerned with european door and specifically the european arrest warrant under which students request to be extradited has been requested to the legal team auguring that the european arrest warrant is invalid because of discrepancy essentially between the allegations that have been made and the testimonies told the two alleged victims that a full count to be considered is ranging from unbelievable coercion and rights up to rape and the defense team has said that there is nothing in the victim's statement that amounts to that and that no option evidence so a lack of consent in those statements three of the full relegations they say wouldn't even amounts to crimes in the u.k. so it's very much the approach that that's taking hold a they are touring has had since the fact that i phones has not been charged in sweden that he's wanted them maybe for questioning and that's a kind of the prosecution stance is has he actually been accused of anything and if

no and then the european arrest warrant is in we maybe a right to put it at the end of wednesday but we may know and the judge may refer the decision to another day he may put his often good decision a few days or even a few weeks' time we're hearing. reporting there and you can find more from our team on our website including the latest news blogs and analysis expert. well some of the stories you can find over time dot com right now including how of world famous fast food chains turn into a grocery store especially after mass dons in russia serves up a smart move to save itself the super sized tax bill. also tightening the screws on child molesters chemical castration could be used on convicted paedophiles in russia as president pushes for tougher punishments. while the us is said by many to be one of the loudest creatures of human rights around the globe it's now facing a rising outcry against torture inside its own borders in the past sixty years

thousands of professional torturers have reportedly been trained approval from the department of defense but as i found out the pentagon claims it didn't know how the training was being put into practice. it's been thirty years since come i mean soldiers kidnapped be starved and electroshock take their addie's piece about all for having a quote subversive but. the memories he relives every day people have survived torture in corona so i'm very lucky to be able to tell the story. people get told to for ten days of the stand there and then they get shot and kill many have been disappear after says the colombian soldiers who tortured him and later killed his brother. and were trained right here on american soil at the school of the america and for pending georgia army major joseph player was an instructor there i was very much in favor of the school of the americas there in the cold war

era but major players as he was horrified with what his former students did with their anti-communist training in their own country classified. that the army school . used the words to regain its. assess and they do. commonly. call it waits for. graduates from the school of the americas have been implicated in massacres and torture throughout the hemisphere and the more than sixty thousand soldiers and police have graduated ten thousand of them have been colombia has been the largest user of the school of the americas i don't think it's an accident. abuser of human rights and it was some hints for the eighth amendment to the us constitution forbids torture and other forms of cruel and unusual punishment as the geneva convention but if that happens there's no question that our country not only

in danger and torture it's sort of put toward others how to do it we also people we also sent people to prisons in other countries where they were in fact tortured there although congress demanded more oversight of military training programs and into. investigation by the government accountability office show that school of the americas manuals advocated using quote torture truth serum blackmail and execution the pentagon said it didn't know what the manuals contained because it staff advisors assigned to review them didn't speak spanish united nations special repertoire for torture one man gets himself a survivor of torture says a lack of transparency in the u.s. led to further abuse can be eighty's unfortunately. a military aid and police aid was restored after that and difficult to document to what extent that includes teaching. techniques that are prohibited by law by international law it's a legacy that sharply contrast with u.s.

rhetoric about respect for human rights abroad torture survivors and religious leaders in washington d.c. have come together to demand a full commission of inquiry into what they describe as torture practices were enabled by the united states including in its own prisons like one time of day and by the cia when president bush says that he waterboarding and he would do it again . and set them right that he had ordered it. so you know it's a very serious problem for the spirit soul of our country as the myth of how many prisoners were tortured by the united states are hard to find but survivors like hector's even numbers don't tell the full story when someone gets torture you know only the person who's for. the you know would be wouldn't because of those. there's also someone who has to be humanized themselves in order through the human eyes of the human being but a society that supports torture is going to pay a price a very big prizes for killing ford artsy washington d.c.

. the taliban's biggest achievement in ten years stats what the group called the assassination of the half brother of the afghan president karzai have the province a volatile region on the border with pakistan jerry who back in two thousand and eight was held by the taliban for forty five days says the killing leaves washington was no one to rely on when it comes to securing the region. well the cars i was not just the governor or the shadow governor of kandahar he was the most powerful and the most popular person throughout all of southern afghanistan this shows that right now with the canadian troops pulling out and with the us trying to now focus on eastern afghanistan feeling that they have controlled the south there is now a vacuum who is in power who can the west rely upon no one the taliban have claimed responsibility for this but it's not clear that the taliban are responsible it

could very easily be a power struggle but i've also heard and others have reported that he was responsible for perhaps starting to bring the taliban together with the united states to negotiate therefore someone would have had a definite reason perhaps pakistan perhaps the taliban to stop this we don't know yet who is responsible because they killed the person who had all the information. that isn't a pattern here ellison author gerry van dyke there. was often accused of links with the taliban in afghanistan illegal drugs straight out of russia's federal drug control surface even off says a decade of military failures of the coalition forces in the country aren't helping or watch his full interview in just over an hour here in r t but here's a quick preview. this september will see the tenth anniversary of that interview that's longer the world war two. the situation in afghanistan doesn't

improve it's become even worse and even senior officials like general petraeus for example going to treat operation in afghanistan says the number of clashes there increases year after year and in fact the number of those clashes over the past ten years has increased more than a hundred times it was a with heavy assigned tasks been achieved but we see that the security in afghanistan has only gotten worse it's said that drug production cannot be forced because of the damage of the security situation so it's a kind of closed circle your. scandal surrounding rupert murdoch's media empire has gone international after u.s. senators called for their own program to the news corp company if follows allegations that someone murdered newspapers at hamworth drive your policemen for access to the call records of nine eleven victims in britain the outbreak to stir an explosive details of this the hacking from the world to the murder victims the things are said in return dad is editor of the day online news service things that

you gain data to be misused and not just by tabloids. but i think that where this does become a question for national security is the idea that police is selling private phone numbers and private contact details of people like the royal family and the prime minister yes well that is not necessarily the same to sell these things to a newspaper as it would be to sell them to. terrorist organization but if you can do one you may be able to do the other so yes it's very serious but i think what people are. expecting is for the scandal to go up through rebecca brooks who's the chief executive of news international to james murdoch and james murdoch himself many people say should step down and take a break. now take a look at some other stories from around the world at least and. explosion on a bus and the pakistani capital police suspect the blast was triggered by

a faulty gas cylinder and ignited all injured passengers were taken to hospital but officials have warrants the death toll is likely to rise. french lawmakers have voted in favor of continuing the country's military operation even if this isn't was supported by the majority of the lower house of parliament french officials claim colonel gadhafi representatives have told them that nuclear is ready to discuss surrendering power stephen brown contributing editor of the front page online magazine believes the french are looking for an honorable way out of leaving . france who just recently called for the rebels to negotiate with gadhafi and so the bombing will stop as soon as the. the negotiating table that shows to me that nato is surrendering the surrendering process has begun and i think. he is continuing just putting up a front of the moment looking for a way for peace with honor of withdrawal they can be they thought was going to be

an easy victory. i said way back when. they should only go to with numbers turn their ground troops in the media really the rebels were too weak to defeat you don't know what you're thinking they simply got caught up in. their own human rights and. going through the u.n. waging war for the u.n. and this is the result you know there's no decision it's costing tens of millions of dollars. civilians are being killed civilians and no we've had very sheerin into southern libya to protect your facilities i think he's the worst criminal than . the two shows of the war was never about protecting libyan civilians it was a vote making sure the oil stayed safe with britain and france. but it was third time lucky for russia's space agency which finally managed to launch six u.s. communication satellites into orbit one of its so used carriers satellites have already got to work following the early morning blast from the baikonur cosmodrome

in council stand initially the launch was scheduled for the month of july but was postponed twice due to technical reasons the global star said allies on board will provide high quality voice and data services for more than one hundred twenty countries across the world. o. reserve today here on r t and let's see what's happening in the world of business meetings here this. morning you're watching business switzerland as one of the top ten member says a country's trade is only getting stronger both presidents are meeting today to talk of business the proposed free trade agreement ration of wholesome cement plant . business r.t. caught up with the swiss economic minister to find out what investors are looking at. there is a need there on the need for technology here in new york the technology being.

offered by the swiss companies the big companies and the small and mid-sized companies as well and of the other side we in switzerland people from different countries russian pro russian production. development here and there is quite positively and we stress. being one specced on the free trade agreement it's gross can probably be increased significantly and that's a pyramid. well reuss may sell stakes in seven companies to russia after accepting bailout funds linked to the states ceding of assets crisis here the economy may sell stakes in gas pipelines to apply in reeds and other stated companies russian technologies corp say one gazprom are among those in trucks with minsk it onto your sleeve an eight hundred million dollar bailout last month as the cash strapped economy burns fruits currency reserves alone is linked together with the sale of

seven hundred billion dollars of assets in its privatization program. to the market so it was declining from a free day high as investors but the increase in u.s. crude supplies and the debt crisis in europe may hold the man through all the serious with like sweden brand god down more than thirty cents per barrel. cross asian markets are positive after they've showed that china's g.d.p. expanded at a faster pace than expected hong kong probably do so again as a result with china overseas land and investment adding almost six percent at one point financials of heading our way of trying to construction gaining more than two hundred percent japanese stocks are also on the rise with a strong and winning sentiment however limiting gains later stops edging but some exporters are getting on bargain hunting up a sharp fall to predict. where most of the markets will start trading in one hour the money six finished third of a percent the r.t.s.

down by just a notch. and russian stocks indeed posted moderate gains on the nice on tuesday after a sharp sell off in the previous session market jitters are driven by fears that europe's debt problems could spiral out of control and spread further into western for months on capital so the sentiment is still difficult now to get. and you could have a slight recovery day today but at the same time any bad news out of europe will send stocks out again it's a really difficult market for navigating also to predict i wouldn't i wouldn't bet my own money on the ride up or down but i think the term you know if you looking at the trend i think we're going to translate over before we go higher but you know you could have interviewed intraday gains for his return looks a bit down at this point of time. through the week level against the dollar in more than two weeks some choose data despite the shaky market sentiment seems to concern from such the bank thinks the bulls out of his presidency i think there is

a lot of fact respect to influence the ruble positively going forward among those being the privatization which is being talked about by the administration right now i also think that the increase in the for the war mature capital markets could be by almost by and definition increasing the demand for ruble goodliest and currency as a foreign investor i have to say that probably one of the few things i will buy today would be the ruble because they give me a part of the oil revenue given part of the gross story in russia. up next on the headlines with marina to stay with us.

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